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title: Numbers 1:20 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Who acts: all, names. Numbers 1:20 in JPS 1917 with i
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# Numbers 1:20 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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**Who acts:** all, names · **What happens:** bear, accord, be, go, poll · **To what, where:** war

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This is Numbers 1:20 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, names), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NUM:19
# text = And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	polls	poll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	nsubj	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	acl:relcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  | war |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **poll** |  | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | nom poll «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְנֵֽי־רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר שֵׁמוֹת֙ לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם כָּל־זָכָ֗ר מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה כֹּ֖ל יֹצֵ֥א צָבָֽא׃

[Numbers 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.20/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:19` of Mova's parse database.

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